Jangipur Assembly Elections 2016

Both the Left and Congress are evenly poised to win the Jangipur assembly seat in the coming assembly election in 2016. However, if TMC decides to go it alone, the Congress may find itself in a tricky situation and this can enhance the chances of the CPM, which, though, has not been able to recover from the losses suffered by it in the last assembly elections in 2011.

Jangipur Assembly Election Candidates List and Results

Name of the Candidate

Party Name

Results

JAKIR HOSSAIN

AITC

Won66869

SOMNATH SINGHA RAY

CPM

46236

Md. Sohrab

INC

34863

Sudhan Kumar Das

BJP

23240

None of the Above

None of the Above

2853

M. A. Hannan

WPI

1506

Mirza Nashiruddin

SUCI(C)

948

Rukumuddin Sk

IND

932

Mostafa Sk

IND

679

Md Saifuddin Saikh

SP

672

Md. Masudul Hoque

IND

490

Khokan Sarkar

IND

300

West Bengal Election

Presently, Jangipur is held by Mohammad Sohrab, the Congress Legislature party leader in West Bengal, who was elected from the seat in 2011 when he had polled 68,699 votes to defeat CPM’s Purnima Bhattacharya by 6336 votes in a bipolar contest. Earlier Mohammad Sohrab has emerged victorious from Suti assembly constituency in 1969, 1971, 1977 and 1996 on behalf of the Congress.

Habibur Rahman of Congress has represented Jangipur from 1972 to 1991. He again won the seat in 1996. Abul Hasnat of Revolutionary Socialist Party has won Jangipur seat in 2001 and 2006. He unsuccessfully contested the Raghunathganj assembly seat in Murshidabad in 2011.